The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-11-21
SATURDAY, NOV. 10, 1887,
TOURIST TRAVEL.

NO TcHeCllNc pctool Nih NNhy
that every tourist who comes to
these Islands helps, more or less, to
stimulate local trade, and that the
stimulation of trade benefits, in
some degree, directly or indirectly,
every member of the community.
The tourist, while here, spends
money for food, lodging, cab hire,
inter-island travel, curiosities, cloth
ing, &c. The persons who
receive the money from him in
the first place, pass 1t on to others,
in the way of trade, until every
body gets his share.
The greater the number of tour
lists, the greater the amount of be-
nefit. If one person, staying here
for one month, spends one hundred
misunderstanding, for the sake of
argument, this to be the average ex-
penditure-one ( hundred persons,
staying the same length of time,
will expend one hundred times as
much, or ten thousand dollars, to
be circulated among all classes of
the community, and the community
will have, for the time being, that
amount added to its circulating me-
dunn. 1t might be here stated,
that the sum above supposed as the
average expenditure of tourists, is
in reality far below the average eX-
penditure of that class.
The tourist who comes to these
islands generally finds more than he
expected, aud therefore considers
himself compensated for his eXpend-
iture. We do not pretend to fur
nish him with the accommodation
of the Palace Hotel of San Fran
cisco, or Of any of the leading hotels
of great cities but he finds all the
hotel conveniences and comforts
that any reasonable man would de-
sire, at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel
or if he be a plain, unpretentious
man, at the Eagle House. Then we
have for him a climate whose mild
ness and equability defes competi-
ton. Our volcanoes, living and
dead, are the largest, the grandest,
the most wonderful known. Our
valley and mountain scenery is
second to none. The inter-island
steamers of Messrs. Wilder & Co.
and of the Inter-Island Steam Navi-
CATION Co. are not New York ferry
boats, but the tourist finds them
very safe, comfortable, land convent
ent boats to travel around the islands
in. And, above all, on the Hawaiian
Islands he finds generous and
hospitable people, ever ready to re-
ceive with open arms, as q brother,
and to "kiss for his mother" every
worthy fellow, (and some that are
not) who comes along. Then, if the
foregoing portion of this paragraph
is correct, and it certainly is, this
country is not bad place for per-
sons DESTROYS of change, pleasure,
glorious sights, &C., to come to. In
deed, it affords splendid field for
the tourist, where he will find some
things which he may seek for ever,
in vain, elsewhere. Here, "every
prospect pleases, and"-ah, well,
never mind the rest of the quota
ton.
Now, if the people of this coun-
try and the people of other coun-
tries who come to visit this coun-
try are both benefited by the com
ing of the latter, then are they mu-
tually benefited, and what is mu-
tually beneficial to two parties can
be Objectionable to neither. There
fore, the scheme long projected and
often alluded to in these columns,
to promote tourist travel to these
islands, is legitimate one, and, if
successful, will be profitable to our
selves, while returning qutd pro
quo to our guests.
The projected scheme is to send
an agent from here TO San Francisco,
and to there present personally to
the notice of that portion of the
travelling public which is constantly
pouring into and out of that city,